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The goal: Make a helmet that could reduce football's high rates of concussions and head injuries.

He was given a tiny helmet and uniform as soon as he could walk, and his mother can remember him standing on the corner outside their home watching the Drew High football team practice on the school grounds across the street.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (February 12, 2007)-- In its continuing emphasis on illegal helmet - to - helmet contact in high school football such as spearing, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Football Rules Committee reorganized and clarified several rules with the intention of further reducing the risk of head injuries, such, as concussions, in the sphigh school football such as spearing, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Football Rules Committee reorganized and clarified several rules with the intention of further reducing the risk of head injuries, such, as concussions, in thfootball such as spearing, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Football Rules Committee reorganized and clarified several rules with the intention of further reducing the risk of head injuries, such, as concussions, in the spHigh School Associations (NFHS) Football Rules Committee reorganized and clarified several rules with the intention of further reducing the risk of head injuries, such, as concussions, in thFootball Rules Committee reorganized and clarified several rules with the intention of further reducing the risk of head injuries, such, as concussions, in the sport.

In an effort to continue minimizing the risk of injury in high school football, three additional rules will take effect next season to address helmets coming off players» heads during games.

As someone who has been writing about and following the concussion issue for many years, and as the producer and director of the new high school football concussion documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», I have been in the unique position of having direct, first - hand experience with with all football helmets and helmet impact sensor technology, and of having addressed the issue of whether the addition of such sensors to a football helmet would likely void the NOCSAE certification and manufacturer's warrahigh school football concussion documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», I have been in the unique position of having direct, first - hand experience with with all football helmets and helmet impact sensor technology, and of having addressed the issue of whether the addition of such sensors to a football helmet would likely void the NOCSAE certification and manufacturer's wfootball concussion documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», I have been in the unique position of having direct, first - hand experience with with all football helmets and helmet impact sensor technology, and of having addressed the issue of whether the addition of such sensors to a football helmet would likely void the NOCSAE certification and manufacturer's warraHigh School Football Safer», I have been in the unique position of having direct, first - hand experience with with all football helmets and helmet impact sensor technology, and of having addressed the issue of whether the addition of such sensors to a football helmet would likely void the NOCSAE certification and manufacturer's wFootball Safer», I have been in the unique position of having direct, first - hand experience with with all football helmets and helmet impact sensor technology, and of having addressed the issue of whether the addition of such sensors to a football helmet would likely void the NOCSAE certification and manufacturer's wfootball helmets and helmet impact sensor technology, and of having addressed the issue of whether the addition of such sensors to a football helmet would likely void the NOCSAE certification and manufacturer's wfootball helmet would likely void the NOCSAE certification and manufacturer's warranty.

An additional complicating factor for high school football programs is the question of whether a football helmet to which an impact sensor has been affixed violates the rules of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) or of a state high school athletic associathigh school football programs is the question of whether a football helmet to which an impact sensor has been affixed violates the rules of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) or of a state high school athletic associatHigh School Associations (NFHS) or of a state high school athletic associathigh school athletic association.

In the case of the Newcastle High School football program that we featured in The Smartest Team, the athletic trainer had a student assistent monitor the data coming in from the sensors in players» helmets so that he could continue to keep his eyes on the field.

Although you can also look at football helmet ratings, the NOCSAE cautions «against an over-reliance on any individual data point, rating or measurement which could lead to inaccurate conclusions or even a false sense of security that one helmet brand or model guarantees a measurably higher level of concussion protection than another for a particular athlete.»

The risk of sustaining a concussion in high school football is not affected by the brand, age of the helmet, or recondition status, or by the type of mouth guard worn, say researchers from the University of Wisconsin in a new study.

«The committee made this rules change after reviewing data from multiple states regarding the frequency of helmets coming off during live - ball play,» said Julian Tackett, chair of the Football Rules Committee and commissioner of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

To determine which type of football helmets and mouth guards are associated with a lower incidence and severity of concussions in high school football players, McGuine and his colleagues worked with certified athletic trainers (ATCs) to collect data on 2,288 players at 36 public and private high schools in Wisconsin during the 2012 and 2013 football seasons.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

Meanwhile at Purdue University, researchers studied the issue of sub-concussive blows by putting sensors in the helmets of Lafayette, Ind., high school football players for two seasons.

Now is a good time to review the NATA recommendations, especially after the death Friday night of a 16 year old football player in western New York after what was described in local reports as «a helmet - to - helmet hit» during a high school football game.

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In original stories that aired in February, local high school coaches, trainers and sporting goods dealers talked about a Virginia Tech study that indicates certain football helmets may cut concussion risks.

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The goal of the testing is to determine which helmets best reduced head impact severity under conditions simulating certain potential concussion - causing impacts sustained by NFL players during games, so the conclusions on helmet performance can not be extrapolated to collegiate, high school or youth football.

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Only a handful of football players at high schools in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma are also testing the helmets, Broglio says.

Unity High School in Tolono, Ill., has equipped its 32 varsity football team members with special helmets that employ Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS) technology.

High schools in the U.S. have been using Head Impact Telemetry System technology in football helmets, where six battery powered sensors record the location, force, duration and direction of an impact and send the information wirelessly to a lap top on the sidelines.

The study found that as long as the helmets had a NOCSAE or National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment seal, a National Federation of State High School Association requirement for high school football, they provided similar protectHigh School Association requirement for high school football, they provided similar protecthigh school football, they provided similar protection.

The data indicated that helmet rating scales may be somewhat misleading to parents or schools considering helmet purchases as higher ratings based on laboratory testing did not necessarily correlate to increased protection «on the field» for high school football players.

Despite prices, promises and even ratings systems, all helmets approved for high school football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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«High school football helmets offer similar protections despite different prices: Parents should know how to ensure children have safe football helmets.»